The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1887-10-05
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THE masculine full dress vest will be cut
U-shaped.
The Nihilists have successfully reorgsn-
lied in Russia.
THERE are 10000 Japan oranges trees en-
route to California.
SEA-oTrER hides are valued at five hum
dred dollars apiece.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY, Of Illinois, is Mex
lean war pensioner.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts and her
husband are coming to America.
JAY GOULD is buying Louisiana land
contiguous to his railway system. .
GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE, JR., the inventor
OF the air brake, is worth $4,000 900.
HENRY GEORGE has been fined 500 for
neglecting summons to serve on jury.
ATLANTA, Ga, will be in the throes OF
another local option election November26.
ELEPHANTS tusks are now mounted in
brass and made to hold ornamental parlor
lamps.
New York is flooded with anarchist cir.
culars denouncing the Illinois Supreme
Court.
The annual silver product of NORTH
America is SIS, OOo, 600; Of South America
e26,0OO,OOO.
A FIRM at Pottstown, Pa, is building an
iron bridge which will be shipped TO China
in sections.
GENERAL BouLANoER is said to be bidding
Tor the French Presidency, in succession
to M. Grevy.
SPIDERS are reported in Florida which
spin webs so strong that snakes are entan-
gled in them.
SHERIFF KENDALL's recent raid on Colo
row Is said to have cost the State Of Colo
RADIO $500, 900.
A TEN-LlNE advertisement inserted once
in all the papers in the United States
would only cost 5000.
CARL SEIZURE says Of newspaper report
ers that they fare the guardians Of truth
and personal liberty"
The Count de Paris does not belle We In
republics. But unfortunately for the Count
the Frence people do.
In Mexico laborers get eighteen to
twenty-five cents day, and are often
paid in farm produce.
WASHINGTON is the best shaded city in
the world. At present there are 5000
shade trees in its streets.
GENERAL HAwLEY says that London is
the most comfortable place in the world
In which to pass the summer.
IT is reported that there is to be whole
sale change in the list of officers at West
Point, which involves q social revolution
there.
NInILIsM is fast spreading in Siberia,
where, during August, forty-fve guards
absconded and thirty-three prisoners es.
capped.
A NEW amusement at London fairs is
called "topsy-turvy." Its patrons are Sc
curely strapped in barrel and then rolled
about.
DAKOTA, Washington and Utah will
each have big lobby at work on Congress
next winter to secure admission into the
Union.
IT is no use trying to coax an autograph
from Gladstone. An application will only
result in the receipt of Autograph en- q
postal card.
The best and the only sure way in which
business man can prevent business be.
coming dull is to keep it well polished by
advertising.
KING HUMBERr, Of Italy, is only forty
three years old, but his hair is nearly
white. He is the hardest worked mon.
arch Of Europe.
WHILE chopping wood in the forest, near
Albany, N. Y, Abraham Lewis, sixty-fiv
years Of age, was attack by hornets and
stung to death.
MAYOR POND, of San Francisco, has re.
ceived letter from President Cleveland
declining the invitation to visit that city
owing to lack Of time.
Miss MARY TUCKER, the young daughter
Of wealthy resident of Connecticut
blackened her face and married her faith.
er's colored coachman.
The Constitution of the United States IL
one hundred years old, and it is far more
vigorous to-day and much more respected
than ever in its history.
AN Iowa girl who was voted the hand.
soonest lady in the county tainted away
three times in succession when the joyful
news was brought to her.
A TRAVELLER announces that there are
nearly thousand synonyms in Arabic for
donkey. Conversation must be highly
complimentary in Arabic.
A REUNION Of fifty brass band players il
announced to take place in q Michigan
city, and the inhabitants are preparing for
o vacation, where possible.
Two WOMEN in Chattanooga, Tenn, are
engaged in law SUIT over tough old
gander. There are . great many geese
outside Of the poultry-yard.
The Government is giving attention to
the purchase and preservation of the an
Gent mounds, earthworks and fortifica-
tions found on this continent.
PRoF. ELISHA GRAY was carpenter be-
fore the war, and worked at Brownsville,
Pa. He has just made machine that re-
produces message Just as written.
A RESIDENT of St. Louis who wagered
$50 that he could tell margarine from but
ter nine times out Of ten, when put to the
test failed In seven cases out Of ten.
AMERICA now holds the championship in
lawn tennis, croquet prize-fghting, chess,
baseball, yachting, trotting and several
other fine arts Of minor importance.
HoN. JOSEPH CLLEY, the oldest text United
States Senator, and veteran of the War
of 1912, died in Nottingham, N. H., q few
days ago, at the age of ninety six years.
A FRENCHNAN is said to be writing .
book proving that the Bard Of Avon was
Frenchman," and that his name origin
ally was Jacques Pierre, or, in plain Eng
lish, John Peter.